Tea party abandons presidential race to focus on senate

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/09/tea-party-abandons-presidential-race-to-focus-on-senate/

With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out of the race, many U.S. Tea Party activists are shifting focus to the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.

The fizz has gone out of the presidential contest for some supporters of the fiscally conservative movement now that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is not running and Texas Governor Rick Perry and congresswoman Michele Bachmann are slipping in polls.

“No one is going to get perfect in a general election candidate. That is why we think the Senate is a better place to focus,” said Matt Kibbe, president and chief executive of the libertarian FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group.

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With 23 of the 33 Senate seats up for grabs next year now held by Democrats, and a wave of public hostility to incumbents, Tea Party activists said they looked forward to more Republican gains in 2012.

[tridim]

1. I think he means, a wave of public hostility toward TEABAGGER incumbents

[Andy823]

2. Most americans don' like the tea party

Polls show their support is way, way down, and I have been on discussion boards where republicans who trash the president all the time, also no longer support the tea party! If the tea party groups start throwing in their candidates to primary republicans, it will only help to divide the votes. If a tea party candidate wins a republican primary, it may also help the democrat that is running in the November race. Now some republicans may not ever vote for a democrat, they also may not vote for a tea party candidate. I think a whole lot of republicans are very unhappy that their party has been taken over by these clowns, and the way the leadership in the house has kissed up to the tea party, is not going over well either.

I could be wrong, but I think the tea party is going to be a thing of the past, and even the morons who have bee kissing up to them are trying to find a way to get fid of these clowns!

[bemildred]

3. The President is just an employee, Congress is the boss (when it wants to be).

So to that extent I agree, if you want real change, you want to own Congress.

[Frances]

4. Actually

we are supposed to be governed equally by the President, Congress, and the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is in the hands of the right wing.

The House is in the hands of the right wing.

If the right wing can win the Senate, then the right wing will control 2/3 of the government.

[bemildred]

6. Congress owns the money supply, and Congress can impeach or remove anybody.

And Congress owns the power to make law.

[K8-EEE]

5. Read: GOP does not want Tea Party endorsements

because their little Frankenstein is now a liability, this is the first step in getting them to fade away.

They don't want them endorsing Romney, or NOT endorsing Romney so they will "focus on the Senate" (read: in 2 flyover states that are gonna elect teabagger morons anyway.) LOL, this is a part of them dialing down the teabaggers, nobody wants to be associated with them anymore.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. This is bad news for our side

because this is a smart move on their part.